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The world's biggest furniture brand IKEA is raising prices by an average of 9% as it faces increasing costs in transport and raw materials, the owner of most of its stores worldwide said on Thursday.

Households around the world saved an excess $3 trillion in savings, bringing the total to $6 trillion globally.

The Turkish lira has fallen another 12% relative to the dollar, bringing its plunge to about 50% since rate cuts began in September. Erdoğan yesterday announced he's raising Turkey's minimum wage by an eye-popping 50%— a move that could also stoke further inflation which remains over 21%.

In case you haven’t heard … prices? They’re higher these days. That’s not terribly surprising, given the global supply chain debacle, but it turns out a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic has an impact, too. Dozens of countries have experienced inflation since the onset of the pandemic, and the United States has one highest rates. Today, we look at how the U.S. approach to addressing inflation differs from other countries around the globe. We’ll also take a trip to a warehouse to see its role in the global supply chain, hear how the Great Resignation isn’t necessarily benefitting everyone and celebrate jobless claims that haven’t been this low since the Beatles were together.

Over his first nine months in office, President Biden has lost support among Americans of all stripes — men and women, Black voters and white voters, Zoomers an…

Surging rents and low mortgage rates mean that the monthly cost of buying a starter home is more affordable than renting in nearly half of the biggest housing markets across the country.

Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates.

From the BLS : The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.3 percent in August on a seasonally adjusted basis af...

The housing market continues to set new records.The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index just reported its highest one-year gain in history, up nearly 19% through the end

Inflation has continued to concern investors into the month of August, causing many growth stocks to give back any footing they gained in the prior month. Since the February top in tech growth, only select names in the cloud and semiconductor space, as well as big tech, are at new highs, while many high fliers from last year are still building a base.

Apartment List publishes monthly rent reports to examine key trends in cities and states across the nation. How have rents in your city changed recently?

Matt is joined by economist Julia Coronado to talk about inflation, markets, and employment in the pandemic recovery economy. They discuss housing, new and used car markets, and possible strategies toward achieving full employment.

Large rent increases and bidding wars on rentals are the new norm in some parts of America as reopening comes with big price hikes.

It comes as the economy continues to move toward a full reopening.

Products are shrinking. Only some people are noticing.

Friday's jobs report, and a slew of other data, shows going big and going early works.

LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) -European factories continued to ramp up their post-lockdown recovery in June but Asian manufacturers saw momentum weaken amid rising input costs and the reintroduction of curbs to combat a new wave of coronavirus infections, surveys showed. Czech and Polish manufacturing hit a record pace of activity for the second month in a row as orders rose and economies opened up again. But manufacturing activity grew at a slower pace in China and Japan as raw materials rose, while activity shrank in Vietnam, Malaysia and India, where governments imposed tougher restrictions to contain fresh coronavirus outbreaks.

Some distillers, brewers and vineyards say they are absorbing higher costs for packaging, aluminum, labels, transportation and energy, but that might not last.

Far from signaling the return of significant inflation, temporary price increases are exactly what one would expect in a recovery following an economic shutdown. Whether those peddling inflation fears are pursuing their own agenda or simply jumping the gun, they should not be heeded.

Fannie Mae's ESR Group altered many of its 2021 forecasts given the strong relationship between the housing market and inflation.

Americans are bracing for a wave of higher inflation over the next year.

Prices were .06% higher in May than they were in April.

Rising costs at its factories — an accelerating trend, new data showed — could trickle into the rest of the world economy.

The ebbing of the pandemic has brought price increases, supply bottlenecks and labor shortages. Key indicators will show whether it’s just a stage.

Prices grew 13.3% annually in March, according to Case-Shiller. Other data due out this week will offer clues about whether the housing supply crunch will continue.

The annual rate of inflation hit the European Central Bank’s target for the first time since late 2018, as energy prices surged in response to a strengthening recovery in the global economy.

A key barometer of inflation leaped again in April and by one measure hit a 13-year high, reflecting a broad surge in consumer prices as the U.S. fully...